and spurn the terror like an uninterpretable dream? But Time has collected the sands of the shore upon the cables cast thereonwhen the shipborn army sped forth for Ilium.The sense of the Greek passage (of which no entirely satisfactory emendation has been offered) is that so much time has passed since the fleet, under Agamemnon’s command, was detained at Aulis by the wrath of Artemis, that Calchas’ prophecy of evil, if true, would have been fulfilled long ago. Chorus Of their coming home I learn with my own eyes and need no other witness.